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Supraja Varadarajan

@suprajagv.bsky.social
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Developmental neurobiologist, Vision scientist, Axon lover. Asst. Professor at UTSW, she/her varadarajanlab.org

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Wert Laboratory (PI: Katherine Wert) @wertlaboratory.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🎉🥳 Thanks, @iser.bsky.social! How about we set up a session on sex differences and sex hormone signaling in the retina for 2028? I’ve seen some incredible scientists at #ISER2026 working in this field
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Wert Laboratory (PI: Katherine Wert) @wertlaboratory.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Great way to end #ISER2026, with a Valencian beach sunset and the amazing company of incredible scientists @suprajagv.bsky.social @annaintegrated.bsky.social
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Wert Laboratory (PI: Katherine Wert) @wertlaboratory.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
UTSW faculty enjoying #ISER2026 @suprajagv.bsky.social
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Supraja Varadarajan @suprajagv.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One of the highlights of conferences is meeting friends from different stages of your career! @shyamraji.bsky.social
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Supraja Varadarajan @suprajagv.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you missed these 4 talks by @wertlaboratory.bsky.social @annaintegrated.bsky.social @axonreg2lab.bsky.social and Laura Campello be sure to find them and talk to them about their awesome science! And another plug for the newly minted Campello Lab and Schaeffer Labs. #iser2026 #womeninscience
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Supraja Varadarajan @suprajagv.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Check out the first paper from the Todd Lab on how reprogramming in the retina is affected in aging. Congratulations @levi-todd.bsky.social!
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Wert Laboratory (PI: Katherine Wert) @wertlaboratory.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Cartuja de Ara Christi supporting pupillary dilation. #ISER2026
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Supraja Varadarajan @suprajagv.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A fantastic session @iser.bsky.social on the eye to brain pathway, chaired by Carol Mason and @eloisaherrera.bsky.social !
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Ariel Levine @ariellevine.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Posting for Vibhu Sahni: Due to unforeseen circumstances the Burke Neurological Institute will have to terminate its research operations 5/22. There are international postdocs on visas who are looking for new homes. Please reach out to Vibhu if you can help
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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Great scientists make great friends. #arvo2026 @suprajagv.bsky.social @wertlaboratory.bsky.social
Three young female scientists
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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
1st McKinley Lab grad student’s 1st preprint! @claireang.bsky.social studied how the uterus safely excises massive amounts of tissue during menstruation and pregnancy. Come for her GORGEOUS images, stay for her incredible discoveries. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... w/ @akelleher1017.bsky.social
Immunofluorescence image of a mouse uterus with epithelium labeled in cyan. There is a folded lumen in the center and glands branching off like bunches of grapes.
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Supraja Varadarajan @suprajagv.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Coming out of my social media slumber to share what a great time we've had hosting @meyerlab.bsky.social at UTSW, and learning about his fascinating research on Glaucoma, and neuron-glia interactions in neurodegeneration!
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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines. Learn more about these exceptional scientists: www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows
Text reads "Congratulations to the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows" followed by the Leading Edge logo and www.leadingedgesymposium.org. Below are the headshots and names of the 40 new Leading Edge Fellows. They are 
Cel	Welch
Lianna	Wat
Maria	Toro Moreno
Sarah	Talley
Xulu	Sun
Ines	Sturmlechner
Virginia	Savy
Amelie	Raz
Kali	Pruss
Caterina	Profaci
Sarah	Pierce
Melissa 	Pamula
Kehinde	Odufowora
Patricia	Nano
Ariana	Musa de Aquino
Nour El Houda	Mimouni
Kathleen	Martin
Brea	Manuel
Mable	Lam
Miri	Krupkin
Elaine	Kouame
Megan	Kirchgessner
Sumin	Kim
Shubhangini	Kataruka
Geraldine	Jowett
Andrea	Jones
Leanne	Iannucci
Emily	Heckman
Allison	Girasole
Florencia	Fernandez Chiappe
Tonie	Farris
Hannah	Elam
Erin	Doherty
Xiaoyun	Ding
Maria	Bustillo
Julia	Brunner
Debadrita	Bhattacharya
Lorena	Benedetti
Ashley	Anderson
Krisha	Aghi
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Allan-Hermann Pool @allanhpool.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Thrilled to join the Rita Allen Scholars community (ritaallen.org/stories/2025...) and grateful for the support! Glad to (re)discover many inspirational colleagues as current and former award in pain scholars.
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Announcing The 2025 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars - Rita Allen Foundation
Investing in transformative ideas in their earliest stages to promote breakthrough solutions to significant problems
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Anna Vlasits @annaintegrated.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Thrilled to announce that my lab has been awarded the Research to Prevent Blindness Career Development Award! Now the lab has a *funded* opening for a post-doctoral fellow interested in studying neurodevelopmental disorders in the retina. More info here! www.vlasitslab.org/joinus
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Supraja Varadarajan @suprajagv.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Come join the vibrant Neuroscience community at UT Southwestern! Apply for tenure-track positions between the Neuroscience Department and the O'Donnell Brain Institute: apply.interfolio.com/158889 More info: nature.com/naturecareer... Reach out if you have questions! #UTSW @futurepislack.bsky.social
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Michel Cayouette @michelcayouette.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Our latest work is out!! Short thread below. www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Identification of a non-canonical planar cell polarity pathway triggered by light in the developing mouse retina
Housset et al. show that basal bodies of cone photoreceptors in the mouse retina are planar polarized in a light-dependent manner by the action of transducin and G-protein-signaling modulator protein ...
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Samantha Butler @samanthabutler.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A summary thread of our Cell Reports paper published last week. In brief, we found a novel activity for netrin1 in the developing spinal cord: it acts as a boundary, to limit Bmp signaling to the dorsal most spinal cord. 1/9 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Netrin1 patterns the dorsal spinal cord through modulation of Bmp signaling
We have identified an unexpected role for netrin1, a canonical axonal guidance cue, as a suppressor of bone morphogenetic protein (Bmp) signaling in t…
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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Where does the retina go in the brain and how does it get there? Check out new review I wrote with the brilliant Daniel Kerschensteiner. bit.ly/3GxadP2
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Supraja Varadarajan @suprajagv.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
APPLY! You cannot go wrong!
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Supraja Varadarajan @suprajagv.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
The Varadarajan Lab is hiring at all levels (research technicians, grad students, postdocs)! Learn more about us at varadarajanlab.org If you are interested in working with us and are at SfN later this week, email me and let's meet at #SfN23 .
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Madeline Andrews @madelineandrews.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Open rank faculty position in Microbiome & Neurodegeneration is now open at ASU. Come join our collaborative, interdisciplinary research community! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37531324...
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Professor (all ranks) Microbiome and Neurodegenerative Diseases - Tempe, Arizona
Arizona State University (ASU) invite applications for Professor (all ranks) in the area of Microbiome in Neurodegenerative Diseases.
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Anna Vlasits @annaintegrated.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
Many people take "non-traditional" career paths in academia. My Leading Edge colleagues and I did! We wrote for PLOS Biology about how non-linear careers are increasingly common, but funding agencies and search committees penalize these paths. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Supporting nonlinear careers to diversify science
Those who follow non-linear career trajectories often face disadvantages in academia. This Perspective looks at why individuals might choose non-linear careers and how these benefit diversity in scien...
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David Tobin @tobinlab.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
Faculty search (tenure-track position) in Integrative Immunobiology at Duke in a terrific, expanding department (Raphael Valdivia, chair). Informational webinar on September 20, with applications due mid-October. immunobiology.duke.edu/join-us
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Arjun Raj @arjunraj.bsky.social · 11/09/2023
With fall here, just want to post my offer for 1-1 mentoring. I've talked to undergrads, tenured faculty, and everything in between. Career, science, whatever—email me and we'll find a time. Esp. happy to talk with people from diverse backgrounds. Done ~100 so far, so don't be shy!
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Seth Blackshaw @sethblackshaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2023
Our review on retinal development is now out in TIGS, with a neurogenesis landscape cover image. www.cell.com/trends/genet...
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Meike van der Heijden @meikeesther.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
Anyone else run in this problem recently? #neuroscience
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Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
Long-term collaboration with @bwjones.bsky.social, myself, and the groups of Sheldon Rowan and Allen Taylor out today!
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Unbalanced redox status network as an early pathological event in congenital cataracts
The lens proteome undergoes dramatic composition changes during development and maturation. A defective developmental process leads to congenital cata…
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Mirasbek @mirasbek.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
I gave away mine here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... courtesy of @vancleve.bsky.social
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ScienceBsky – Contribute Invite Codes
If you're a fan of Science Twitter (RIP) and would like to help folks move over to Bluesky by contributing your invite code, please fill out this form. You may fill it out more than once to contribu...
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
Scientist? New to BlueSky? Trying to figure out what the hell a "feed" is and why hashtags aren't working the same as on Twitter? Check out this quick start guide by @steveharoz.com and me 👇
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BlueSky for Scientists
BlueSky for Scientists Authors: Steve Haroz and Mark Rubin URL: http://blueskyscience.steveharoz.com Features you may miss from Twitter or Mastodon As BlueSky is in beta, some features are not impleme...
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Meike van der Heijden @meikeesther.bsky.social · 05/08/2023
Looking forward to present our project on neural spike signatures for cerebellar movement disorders today at the Cerebellum GRS. First in the poster session, and directly followed by a talk! Link to preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… 🧪
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The cerebellum contributes to a diverse array of motor conditions including ataxia, dystonia, and tremor. The neural substrates that encode this diversity are unclear. Here, we tested whether the neural spike activity of cerebellar output neurons predicts the phenotypic presentation of cerebellar pathophysiology. Using in vivo recordings as input data, we trained a supervised classifier model to differentiate the spike parameters between mouse models for ataxia, dystonia, and tremor. The classifier model correctly predicted mouse phenotypes based on single neuron signatures. Spike signatures were shared across etiologically distinct but phenotypically similar disease models. Mimicking these pathophysiological spike signatures with optogenetics induced the predicted motor impairments in otherwise healthy mice. These data show that distinct spike signatures promote the behavioral presentation of cerebellar diseases.
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Supraja Varadarajan @suprajagv.bsky.social · 03/08/2023
Hi Bluesky scientists..finally getting around to my intro post!! I am a neuroscientist who loves neural circuit development and regeneration. My lab at UT Southwestern (opening Jan 2024) will work on regenerating retinal ganglion cell axons and restoring vision. Stay tuned for more....
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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · 03/08/2023
So so happy for this announcement! The Vision Professor Barbies (2023-2024 edition) are lit!
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Anna Vlasits @annaintegrated.bsky.social · 03/08/2023
I'm thrilled to announce that my lab will be opening at University of Illinois, Chicago Department of Ophthalmology in January 2024! The Vlasits Lab will study information processing in the retina. And the lab website is live! vlasitslab.org
Photo of Anna Vlasits overlaid with the Barbie meme and "This Barbie is going to be a professor" Photo credit
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